 Edward L. Rowny was born in Baltimore, Maryland on April 3, 1917.His father, Gracyan Jan "John" Rowny, who worked as carpenter and contractor, who at age 19 had emigrated in 1912 from village of Nagoszewo in the eastern part of Polish Mazovia region.His mother, Mary Ann Radziszewski, was born in the United States, her parents having come from Poland in 1887.